The Pushkin crime family was a Russian organized crime syndicate which was led by the oligarch and crime boss Vladimir Pushkin from the 1990s to 2010s. Pushkin became involved in the trafficking of weapons, drugs, and prostitutes following the Dissolution of the Soviet Union, and his organization came to have operations on both coasts of the United States, while his operations were protected by his immense wealth and political connections. In 2014, however, the American vigilante Robert McCall went to war with the family after inadvertently eliminating its East Coast hub by killing five of the family's pimps in Boston. When Pushkin sent his hitman Nicolai Itchenko after McCall, McCall retaliated by killing several of Pushkin's henchmen, destroying his Great Eastern oil tanker in Boston Harbor, shutting down his drug operations, and eliminating Itchenko and his crew during a hostage situation at his Home Mart workplace. Afterwards, McCall traveled to Moscow and killed all of the guards at Pushkin's mansion before tricking Pushkin into electrocuting himself, eliminating his gang.